Lots of gentoo packages use the .lzma tarballs so you have the progs already, but since tar 1.20 (out soon) will have LZMA support vapier hasn't bothered backporting it to 1.19 _________________'((eINIT) (soor overlay))

well, i've tried the ubuntu ebuilds in the tarball, but i must say the results are not great. My fonts look kinda blurry and at times it has "stray" pixels. could you share your fontconfig? i would like to get some result before i downgrade the whole thing.
thanks in advance.

Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard on getting awesome font rendering on Gentoo. The latest Ubuntu patches seem to really sharpen up my display and I get nice clean albeit thinner fonts. I like the fonts a bit thinner on my LCD. On another display they are a bit bolder and I need to play with the settings when I find time. Overall I am really pleased.

In following the steps listed above and to add to what PaulBredbury has provided I noticed that xrdb -query did not have the Xft.rgba: <value> set properly:

So I additionally added the Xft.rgba <value> to the ~/.Xresources file (where value should match your ~/.fonts.conf setting):

Code:

Xft.lcdfilter: lcdfilterlegacy
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xft.rgba: rgb

EDIT: OK. Once you reboot the setting defaults back to none! It does not seem to hurt anything and I guess the value is overridden somewhere. Either way the fonts look very good when using lcdfilterlegacy setting.

I should first clarify that the only value that appears to be not sticking is the Xft.rgba.

My WM is KDE-3.5.9 started via xdm on boot using the new baselayout-2 which just entered ~arch. I checked those files and everything looks as you suggested it should. I guess there is not a problem with xrdb -merge $userresources in that it actually does set the other values.

It does appear however that the rgba value does not appear to be reading the Xresources unless I manually run xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources after I am already up and running within KDE.

Again I don't even know if it makes a difference as changing rgba settings in my local fonts.conf appears to work when I actually change my LCD/font rendering to say "bgr" as opposed to "rgb" I see the difference upon restarting X...

I just wanted to ask something here, although I am using these ebuilds, I do not have and lcd monitor, I have an IBM thinkvision 19" crt monitor. What if anyhting should I be doing different?_________________Billy DeVincentis